Winners of NOVAGO’s 2022 Geocache Awards
Thanks to all those who took the time to send in nominations and also to those who voted. MrPsyduck and Schwandt graciously formed an awards committee and together did the bulk of the work to get the nominations narrowed down and run a ballot. Thank you fellas! At the encouragement of the NoVAGO president, ThompsonKickers, our PR officer whipped up some extra gifts for our winner to go along with the traditional trackable tags. We gathered in James S. Long Regional Park on May 6th, 2023 to find out who would bring home the prizes as well as get to display the special winner’s SWAG on their cache pages.
Drum roll, please . . . .
And the winners are
Best Traditional Cache
Kindness Rocks TB Hotel (GC9RXFB) by HyperactiveGirl
Best Mystery/Puzzle Cache
NoVAGO U: Chemistry 100 & 101 (GC9ZZH5) by hrothroc
Best Multi-Cache
NoVAGO U: Home Economics (GC9W8R3) by VAPirate
Best Other (Earthcache, Letterbox Hybrid, Wherigo, or Virtual)
NoVAGO U: Geology 101 (GC9XX2D) by Dr. kiisikwa
Best Event (Event, CITO, or Community Celebration)
NoVAGO U: Recess (GCA0Y3B) by Dumbledork_Minerva
Best Adventure Lab Series
Sick Syndicate of Unjustly Letter Misusers by Awesnap
Best Theme/Series
MAGC 28-35 (placed in 2022) by pwesleynd93
Cache of the Year
NoVAGO U: Geology 101 (GC9XX2D) by kiisikwa
Best Camouflage
NoVAGO U: Hydrology (GC9RHV7) by supertodd88
Most Outstanding Location/Scenery
NoVAGO U: Hiking (GC9ZJVQ) by MJBinski
Best Historical/Educational Cache
NoVAGO U: Geology 101 (GC9XX2D) by Dr. kiisikwa
Most Creative Cache
NoVAGO U: Opera (GCA0TAN) by rlobecker
Most Physically Challenging to Find
Tree Lovers in Herndon Reborn (GC9VY7W) by GriffinTamer88
Best Kids Cache
Kindness Rocks TB Hotel (GC9RXFB) by HyperactiveGirl
Best Log
Best Photo Post in a Log
Serrabou found Chimney Top Cache – nominated photo titled “Clifftop View”
Rookie of the Year
Volunteer of the Year
2022 Special Volunteer Recognition
For more on this special honor, read our announcement.
Cacher of the Year
Winners of the NoVAGO annual cache awards final voting ballot may add this special SWAG to their cache page and to their geocaching.com profile as desired:
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Do you qualify for the Best of 2022 Challenge Cache? This year we are celebrating all great caches published in 2022. Find 25 or more within the NoVAGO territories which have 5+ favorite points to qualify. Thank you vpdj for placing and maintaining this cache. (GCA4R11)